What action should be taken if a learner from overseas joins an English school?
Usually a learner from overseas including Scotland and Northern Ireland will not have been allocated a UPN and should therefore be issued a UPN by the first maintained school they attend. Learners from British Forces schools or British overseas establishments may have already been issued with a UPN and if this is the case their original UPN should be kept. Even if the learner is only entering the English education system for a limited amount of time, he or she should still be issued a permanent UPN and not a temporary UPN. Temporary UPNs are not used for this purpose (see Section 10).
